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Harry Truman: If people couldn't blow off steam that way sometimes, they might explode.

On the recordSeptember 10, 1951
If people couldn't blow off steam that way sometimes, they might explode.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Cornerstone Laying of the New General Accounting Office Building.

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